Fr. Mike Kueber is the Director of Hispanic Ministry for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. He was recently invited by the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors for Hispanic Ministry to attend a conference in Boston, MA. The retreat was sponsored by Loyola Press but organized and led by NCADDHM. The goal was to train new directors of Hispanic Ministry. 30 leaders of Hispanic Ministry from around the US gathered for two days of prayer and formation...
On Saturday, March 2, the Portland Chapter of Young Catholic Professionals welcomed over 200 young adults to their annual Lenten Retreat at Mount Angel Abbey led by Archbishop Alexander Sample. This marked not only the largest YCP Portland event in its 6-year history but the largest retreat ever hosted by any of the 40 YCP chapters across the country.
On March 3rd, 2024, Archbishop Joseph Augustine Di Noia, Adjunct Secretary of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith conferred the Ministry of Acolyte in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at The Pontifical North American College, Vatican City State, on Nicholas Anthony Martell of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, along with 24 other seminarians.
The background to the new Vatican probe is a widening Italian scandal popularly known as dossieraggio, meaning the use of confidential and illicitly obtained information to compiles damaging dossiers...
“In the Vatican, we are still suffering greatly from the disappearance, more than forty years ago, of one of our citizens, Emanuela Orlandi, who was fifteen years old at the time,” Pope Francis said.
Organizers of Pope Francis’s ongoing Synod of Bishops on Synodality announced Thursday that ten different working groups had been formed in the Roman Curia to address specific topics that came out of...